Whether your family chooses to spend turkey day baking pumpkin pie, engaging in awkward political conversations or watching football, this year’s Thanksgiving presents unique challenges. The coronavirus...

It’s currently Native American Heritage Month. Did you know that? Unfortunately, there’s a good chance you didn’t.  The United States has often neglected the legacy of Native Americans. It wasn’t...

Every year, thousands of high-school students across the country spend their summers competing for coveted — and limited — college athletic scholarships. They travel all around the United States, playing...

At 5 p.m. on a Saturday afternoon, most high school juniors would take a nap or finish their homework, but Zach Yaqub has other priorities. After an exhausting, day-long baseball tournament in Virginia,...

Break out your cobwebs, skeletons, ghosts and pumpkins for the front lawn: it’s that spooky, special time of year. Between Halloween lining up with a full moon and occurring on a Saturday night, this...

Aboard a spaceship with his fellow crew members, senior Greg O’Connell only has one goal in mind: survive. There is a murderous impostor aboard the ship, and everyone is a suspect.  All of his crewmates...

Seniors Finn Martin, Adam Melrod, Nicholas Pyle and Jordan Maggin watched from the roof of their hotel as the Pittsburgh skyline lit up with a breathtaking pink hue. The sounds of pop music and a gentle...

Junior Christina Limansky finishes a dance routine she spent hours working on at the Elements Dance Company camp. Breathless, she stretches out her arms while heading over to the bench for a break. When...

A global pandemic can bring panic, disorientation, unemployment and frustration, but for some Whitman students, it brought opportunity. In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, students and alumni have...

As the summer of 2020 dwindled to an end, students settled back into their desks and fired up their computers for an unprecedented semester of virtual learning. But for senior Lily Muchimba, her desk,...

This semester, there won't be bustling halls or student-filled classrooms. The parking lot will remain largely empty, and the few people allowed in Whitman will be administrators, building service and...

In the back of Topher Leonard’s bedroom, the echoes of Fall Out Boy pour out of an old radio. The then nine-year-old Leonard sits hunched over at his desk, fixated on his iPad. He’s playing Minecraft,...